Chances are, taboo sex accounts for more than a few of your fantasies and favorite ways to play.
What Is Taboo Sex?
Sexual taboos are kinds of sex, expressions of sexuality, and fetishes or practices that are forbidden or heavily frowned up by culture, society, religion, family, community, or laws.
Just a few sexual taboos over time have been sex before marriage, cunnilingus, sex during menstruation, and sadomasochism.
Why is Taboo Sex so Hot?
When it comes to sex, anything that is forbidden automatically ups the excitement factor. Sexual excitement is a powerful force of energy, and an effort to inhibit it, repress it, or control it just stokes the flames.
As soon as we are told a sexual practice or pursuit is off the table or not allowed, we are more likely to find it arousing because danger and going against cultural norms amps up sexual energy.
Additionally, many of the sexual taboos imposed by societal structures are basic, common sexual practices that many enjoy. The opinion of nosy neighbors or state overreach is not going to stop people from the things that bring them sexual pleasure.
Some taboos are near universal and some are specific to historical periods or to a particular state, culture, or religion. Some are born out of ignorance and some are meant to protect people in general or a vulnerable group of people. Others are relics of old traditions and values.
Read: All About Kink Shaming and Why It’s Not Okay
27 Sexual Taboos People Enjoy
1. Anal Sex
How often have you heard the phrase, “exit only,” when it comes to butt holes? And yet it feels so good to stimulate the anus and to penetrate it—for the receiver as well as the top.
All gender anuses are full of nerve endings and penetration or stimulation touches on amazing feeling sexual nerve networks. This taboo sex is simply the association of filth, dirt, and human waste. But dirty sex has always been super arousing.
More importantly, we can practice anal sex safely, with good hygiene and condoms, making it a snap to clean up and protect ourselves from bacteria while enjoying all those nerves!
Read: Anal Play Dos and Don’ts
2. Pegging
Pegging, or anal penetration by the female of the male, turns traditional gender roles on their heads and gives women the power to penetrate and the male the feeling of being penetrated.
Pegging is possibly the most taboo sex psychologically, a big reason why it is so exciting to peg.
Read: Meet Women Who Like Pegging Men
3. Group Sex and Swinging
Age-old sex taboos insist on one-on-one sex, but why? It’s probably the evolutionary paternity uncertainty that drives this nearly universal sex taboo.
More evidence of the roots of this taboo show up in the exceptions: somehow having many wives is fine for many cultures, but rarely is it practiced that women have many male lovers.
Read: How to Bring Swinging into Your Relationship
4. Cuckolding
A woman cheating on her husband because he can’t satisfy her is an incredibly exciting fantasy for many men. And nearly every guy fantasizes about his woman with other men.
This taboo sex trend is going around like wildfire right now, as people are looking to live out their fantasies more and more.
Read: 15 Types of Cuckolds and Their Fantasies
5. BDSM
Consensual restraint and pain play and the power exchanges of bondage and submission realistically mimic nature and cultural power structures, but are still sex taboos to many.
Read: BDSM Ideas: The BIG List of BDSM Play
6. Age Play
Lots of people pretend to be little boys or want to wear diapers, or experience sex with someone much older or younger.
Read: 11 Age Play Fetishes and Kinks
7. Piss Play
The sex taboo of urine is linked to our disgust factor, but piss play has been sexually exciting through history.
Read: 5 Piss Play Ideas for Kinky Lovers
8. CNC Kinks
CNC stands for consensual non-consent, and is common in games of sexual roleplay.
Rape play, abduction fantasies, and other consensual non-consent kinks flout sex taboos. We take power back by controlling and consenting to our own violent fantasies.
Read: CNC Kink: 10 Examples of Consensual Non-Consent Play
9. Period Sex
It’s still surprisingly taboo to have sex during our periods. Some people are grossed out by female blood. Others worry it might be unsafe. Lots say fuck it, don’t care, or even have a menstrual fetish.
Read: Menstruation Fetish: The Allure of Period Sex
10. Furry Sex
Cosplay as cartoon characters or stuffed animals, then having sex with someone in costume or with the plush toy or outfit is a very popular kink that many find sexually taboo.
Read: Sexual Furries and the Language of Furry Sex
11. Sex Dolls
Sex dolls bring up a lot of sex taboos—we view them as sad and pathetic, at best for lonely people who can’t get sex, or worse for those who must hate real humans and be psychopaths.
The truth is sex dolls are widely used by busy people, shy people, and other ordinary people. And they are so much more sophisticated and lifelike than ever.
Read: Sex Doll 101: All About Sex Dolls
12. Pregnancy Kinks
Pregnant sex and lactation kinks are popular sexual taboos. They come from the old days of not knowing whether sex would hurt the baby as well as from paternity taboos if it’s not your wife and child. This sex taboo is sometimes about the fact there is a “third party” present.
Read: How to Indulge Your Pregnancy Kink
13. Incest Play
Consanguinamory is a movement out to squash the incest taboo. Consenting adults should be able to choose who they love. More people fantasize about family members than want to experience it in real life.
Read: Exploring Incest Kink & Consanguinamory
14. Feeder Fetish
Extreme fat fetishes and feederism are a form of bondage as well as fat fetishism.
Our moral ideas about food, eating, bodies, and sex make force-feeding kinks a sex taboo, but many people get very excited by eating and watching someone eat and gain weight.
Read: Feederism: Feeding and Gaining Fetish Explained
15. Cannibalism, Vore, and Other Fantasy Consumption Fetishes
Cannibalistic fantasies like eating other humans, or vore, being consumed, are popular in our imaginations—just look at a few old vampire books or modern fantasy series.
You can’t eat people, of course, and have them live to tell the tale, and that’s why there is a sex taboo. But these are very common fantasies. “Being consumed” is a profound parallel to sexual bliss. The vampire version of this is ancient, epic, and wildly popular.
Read: What Is Vore? The Consuming Fetish of Vorarephilia
16. Religious Fetishes
Sex taboos over religious kinks like Catholic role play and BDSM are all about blasphemy, but it makes perfect sense that we want to ritually enact and glean pleasure from systems of repression and oppression.
Read: 9 Taboo Kinks and Fetishes
17. Scat Kinks
For most people, shit is a kink too far. But all body fluids, however taboo they are sexually, turn some people on. Saliva, urine, milk, cum, pussy juice, and yes, poo.
Read: Scat Kink: All About Poop Fetish and Scat Play
18. Cum and Cum Collecting Kinks
Ejaculation is considered by many something to be quickly whisked away in tissue or never seen inside a condom.
Perhaps because condom culture has essentially made cum radioactive and dangerous, some people have cum fetishes and even collect jizz and save it.
Read: 7 Ways to Enjoy Your Cum Fetish
19. Transgender Admiration
One sex taboo used to be known pejoratively as “tranny chasing.” It’s not right to fetishize transgender people but some people have an intense attraction to trans people.
Porn culture objectified transgender women who had no other employment options as “shemales” or “chicks with dicks.” Other people simply find themselves attracted to the mystery of transgender bodies.
It may be politically incorrect, but some people consider it a sexual orientation and not a fetish. They may call themselves trans-attracted.
Read: How to Meet Local Trans Women
20. Big Black Cock Fetishes
Another politically incorrect sex taboo is the BBC kink, or fetish for big black cock. It’s often a cuckold kink or an interracial kink, and makes unrealistic expectations of Black men.
Read: All about the Big Black Cock Fetish
21. Forced Feminization/FemDom/Sissification
Extreme femdom includes forced feminization, where a male is sissified, dressed in women’s clothes or diapers, pegged, subjected to small penis humiliation, sometimes made up in garish wigs and lipstick.
It may be taboo sex, but it’s s a wildly popular subset of BDSM.
Read: Forced Feminization and Sissification Kinks
22. Chem Sex
Cocaine and meth fueled sex orgies are nothing new, and still dangerous. If chemsex is your thing, play carefully.
Read: Sex and Drugs: When Chemsex Is Your Fetish
23. Dildos and Sex Toys
Hardly a sex taboo in my book, but still illegal in many parts of the world!
24. Gay Sex
Ditto.
25. Sex with a Professional
We still frown on sex work and look down on sex professionals, but they provide consensual sex safely to many.
For some, this is taboo sex because they see prostitutes as immoral humans. For others, it is the exploitation that makes the taboo. Be sure to hire independent sex workers who are old enough and have not been trafficked.
Read: Should You Hire a Sex Worker?
26. Older Adult Sex
Older people have sex, lots of it, and yet there are still rules against sex in long-term care and retirement homes. This taboo is disgraceful—older people are grown adults and isolated people need sex and love.
Read: 5 Reasons Kinky Sex Works for Older Lovers
27. Casual Sex
Casual sex is still taboo sex for many, and it still holds whirlwind excitement and anticipation. Hot hot hot!
Read: How to Meet Kinky People
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